On 15/10/15 00:44, Steve Dougherty wrote: > I think another thing being staffed by volunteers has done is made the > project rather directionless. By their nature volunteers tend to work > on what they find interesting, and it doesn't build toward a focused > goal. Volunteers are great at polishing and adding small things, but > usually can't have the focus and time that paid / full-time developers > do to make large changes. Dire mistakes can be made in the opposite direction too. Everything from writing unmaintainable code to meet deadlines and get new users to trying to facilitate volunteers and getting pulled in every direction simultaneously resulting in nothing getting done.
IMHO to be successful we need most of the work to be done by volunteers, even if we *do* have paid staff too. It *is* useful to have paid staff, to do things that wouldn't get done otherwise, either because they are too big and need a sustained effort, or because they are important but not of interest to volunteers. As for the rest, I absolutely agree we suck at raising funds, but we could be a lot more active about it.
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